Tuesday, January 17, 2012

sorry i meant to get this all done and written yesterday, but i didn't remember that monday was a holiday (aka my kids up my butt and needing me to do things all day long with them) till it was too late. and now i sit in a big empty quiet house with katie sitting next to me playing barbies. all is back to normal (aka boys back in school)
i mentioned before that i bought a three pack of these bags. so naturally you could expect at least one more how to using the bags. i think that last one is reserved for me, so i can have one of the applique bags but either in grays, yellows, or blues. or heck throw caution into the wind and go with eggplant. i know its a shade of purple, and i'm not a purple fan...but eggplant. eggplant i can do. we'll see.

-puffy paint in red pink and white. (found in the crafting section with the paints)
-one pencil with a full eraser
-paper plate to mix paint
-iron

1. first you are going to cut out a 2 pieces of freezer paper (shiny face down) around the size of the bag front.
2. second, place one inside the bag to catch any paint bleeding. the second paper you need to fold it in half with the shiny side inside, and draw half of a heart.
3. third, cut out heart, open the freezer paper, and shiny side down, iron until it adheres itself to the bag front.

-place some paint on your paper plate and dip the eraser of the pencil down into the red paint so that the tip is covered in paint.

-proceed to dab and re-apply paint and dab paint. do this for about 1/3 of the way up.
-add a few random higher dots so it merges slowly into the next shade of pink.
-wipe off excess red paint. and then proceed to start the process all over again with the pink paint (adding a few dots of the pink into the red dot section)

-to create the light shade of pink i added some of the white paint and the pink paint together.

then i proceeded to continue all the way up to the finish the rest of the heart.

- let it sit a little to dry, then slowly pull off the freezer paper.

and there you have an easy valentines celebration bag.

now if you'll excuse me...i'm off to shovel the driveway and sidewalks...again. the husband called a snow removal place for me...but they don't come out till tomorrow to give us an estimate...and i'm still too cheap to say we really need that.
i'm sure i'll have more stories on that.
we'll talk soon!

What an adorable bag!!! And so easy to whip up ;) Thanks for the great tutorial!!! We just moved from South Bend, IN (90 minutes on the opposite side of Chicago from you :) and I have to say, I have been very grateful not to have to shovel all of that snow this year :) We still get it here in Southern Utah but not near as bad :)

Oh, LA! I don't know how you come up with your ideas, but they are always something thats easy, practical and stunning! This tote is just ideal for a friends birthday next month. Maybe, I'll even make mini ones for her 3 girls. Oh, sorry you have to shovel the 'snow'. Grew up in the midwest, yep, don't like it. I'll will pray for you and a snowblower to clean the snow away.

So cute! I thought I'd bookmarked your tutorial but when I came to do the heart I couldn't find it so had to wing it. Luckily your instructions had stuck in my brain and my effort came out really nicely. Thank you so much! I blogged it here: http://hazelnutgirl.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/i-heart-you.html

Thank you so much for sharing this-what a cute idea and great tutorial!! I blogged my attempt at hallipyeverafter.com. It was a good project to share with a little helper, too :) Your blog is so impressive... as someone who can barely sew a button on a shirt, I really appreciate your sewing talent. Maybe someday I'll work up the nerve to try it again!

This is such a cute idea, and the bag is just adorable. Love your tutorial, pictures, etc. Can't wait to give this one a try. Thanks for sharing your talents with us! I'm a new visitor to your blog...I found you at blog.whimseybox.com, where we're both linked up. Did you know? Had to pop in and say hi. Will be exploring your blog some more. Enjoy the rest of your week!

i found your project on this site: http://www.surprisediy.com/diy-317.html which appears to have potentially stolen your content. I found you through your watermark (yay for watermarks!). I just wanted to let you know in case you are interested in pursuing it.

Hi, I have a couple of questions about the instructions. It says to cut out a heart in one piece of the freezer paper and then iron it onto the bag, shiny side down. So, then, when you dab the paint on, are you dabbing it right onto that freezer paper heart that you just ironed on the bag? The instructions at the end say to slowly pull the freezer paper off when paint is dry, so that confuses me. Does the paint go through the freezer paper? Thanks.